don't remember those campaign events." both franken and conyers say they have no intention of stepping down, but several democrats are urging conyers to at least relinquish his leadership role on the house judiciary committee while the ethics investigation runs its course, reena. >> nancy cordes. thank you so much, nancy. well, investigators have determined the gunman in the las vegas massacre fired more than 1,100 rounds. that's according to the sheriffh wounded in the october 1st s ho and in the hallway. another 4,000 rounds of ammo were found in the room. the "cbs overnight news" will be right back.

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using or even just holding theia drivers can be pulled over for using a handheld phone. >> i literally just broke up with my girlfriend. further, increasing fines and becoming the first state to call the behavior what safety advocates argue it truly is -- driving under the influence of electronics, or duie. >> we reduced drunk driving. we're going to reduce drunk electronic driving, and that's what this is. >> reporter: governor jay inslee. is part of that then trying to create a stigma with texting and driving, with being on your cell phone? >> one of the successful things, why we've reduced drunk driving, it has become a great stigma. so we need to create that same social expectation. >> what do you miss most? >> the kisses. cody always kissed.

23-year-old. cody spent months in the hospital, then had a massive heart at >> so we had to make that decision to shut the machines off and end our son's life. and all because somebody had to pick up a cell phone and look at it because it made a noise. >> reporter: the bill was not without controversy. critics complained that being able to pull someone over simply for holding their cell phone was a little too aggressive. the warning period ends in january, and then those increased fines become a reality for drivers. kris van cleave, cbs news, seattle. three american sailors are missing half a world from home. they were on a navy transport plane that crashed in the pacific wednesday, nearly 600 miles southeast of okinawa. the navy has notified their families, but it's withholding their identities as the search widens. eight others were rescued.

your holiday dinner with coffee, you may find this interesting. british scientists say this week that three to four cups a day are likely doing good for you, more good than harm. they say coffee is linked to a lower risk of heart disease and premature death. but some coffee crops are being threatened now by changes in the environment. mark phillips has tonight's "climate diaries." >> reporter: to many it's the other dark liquid that powers the world -- coffee. but because of the damage being done to the planet by the primary dark liquid, oil, along with other fossil fuels, coffee is in trouble and so are the farmers who grow it. is this a good harvest year or not so good? >> it is not so good. >> reporter: up here in the mountains of eastern uganda, coffee is the most important thing they grow.

khabala's family have been growing it on their farm, about 4,000 feet up the slopes of mt. elgon, for generations. lately, though, they've been having problems they've never had before. it turns out coffee is as fussy as the people who drink it. it likes the right altitude, the right temperature, and the right amounts of rain and sunshine in the right order. it's the goldilocks of crops that likes things just right. not enough rain, too much sunshine, bad fruit. >> yes. too much sunshine it produces bad fruits. >> reporter: another farmer, another farm, another problem. this fine white powder is produced by the stem borer beetle, which sam massa says is just one of the pests and diseases which have come up from the valleys as the weather has warmed. >> ten years back it was not here. most of the farms have been destroyed completely, totally by this stem borer. >> reporter: coffee yields have been dropping, and prices are up by as much as 30% in some areas

since 2015. more than just a consumer's morning pick-me-up is threatened. the farmers are caffeine dependent for another reason. from picking the berries to processing them, to drying and sorting the beans and getting them to market, this is a family business where every member of the family contributes and where the cash from selling the coffee provides the only income to pay for schools for the kids and for medical care. there's actually an imbalance in the coffee world. the retail is controlled by the big brands, the big distributors, but the production comes from little family, almost vegetable-sized patch farms like this. if production fails here, the big boys can go somewhere else. these people can't go anywhere. for the people who consume coffee it's about a drink. for the people who produce it and depend on it it's about life. mark phillips, cbs news, on mt. elgon, uganda.

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two months after hurricane maria, half of puerto rico is still without power. more than 1,300 people are in shelters. tonight david begnaud takes us inside the low-income neighborhood la perla, spanish for the pearl. you may recognize it from a viral music video. >> reporter: la perla may look like any other puerto rican neighborhood ravaged by hurricane maria. >> so our neighbor's house came down too. >> reporter: except for one thing. ♪ despacito the video for luis fonsi's smash hit song "despacito" was shot here. in only 11 months it has been

viewed more than 4 billion times, making it the most popular music video of all time. la perla, the slightly seedy barrio right below old san juan, suddenly became a star. who all was in the video with you? but when maria made landfall here, fame was no shelter. do you have water here? >> we don't have water. >> reporter: do you have power? >> we don't have power. >> reporter: gabriel lamastus runs a youth boxing program here. >> there's nobody that can tell them to get out of here. they have survived all the hurricanes since they've been alive. how do you tell them to get out of their house? >> the side of the house. >> reporter: the storm obliterated luis santiago's house into a jumble of sticks and stones. >> this is the front of the house. >> reporter: he was born in brooklyn, but la perla has been his home for 30 years. would you want to rebuild in this spot? >> on this spot. >> reporter: right by the ocean. >> right by the ocean. this is a spot i like. >> reporter: but rebuilding in

elsewhere. many in the government view the neighborhood as a crime-filled e long eyed the seaside location as a potential resort. so lamastus says people here aren't expecting to get much help. >> do you feel like you're on your own? >> yes, the community's on their own. i'm not on my own. we are on our own. we stick together, but it's rough. it's not easy. ♪ >> reporter: in spanish despacito means slowly. in the song it's all about love. but in la perla it's about healing. david begnaud, cbs news, san juan. coming up, a thanksgiving feast that's out of this world.

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international space station had a thanksgiving feast about 250 miles above the earth. a multicourse meal with all the trimmings served in what appear to be little plastic pouches. >> joe's i think got some turkey. >> got to have some turkey. >> paolo's -- cornbread dressing. and sabo's got the candied yams. >> they also had an apple cider and cranapple dessert. three of the six crew members are americans. a scoop of ice cream is on the menu tonight for the nation's top dog. this cute little guy named newton beat out 2,000 others to win best in show at the national dog show. newton is a brussels griffith. they're smart and affectionate lap dogs. his owner and trainer were excited. but newton took his victory in stride. a military veteran has gone from homelessness to serving the public. his remarkable story is next.

on this holiday that's centered around the home we end with a young man who not very long ago didn't have a home. now 26, he's a rookie cop with a bright future and an inspiring story told tonight by john blackstone. >> reporter: the rigorous training at the california

a ceremony, polishing a memorial to officers killed on duty. >> puts it in a little bit more perspective of what you're signing up for even before you even graduate. >> reporter: officer edwin lopez still can't quite believe he did graduate. >> sometimes i wake up and i'm like oh, my goodness, i'm an officer. >> reporter: long before he could get into a patrol car lopez had to pass a background check and lie detector test which had him particularly worried. the highway patrol wants to know everywhere candidates have ever lived. this was home sometimes? >> yes, yes. >> reporter: he was reluctant to admit that he was homeless for nearly a year, living in this sacramento park. it's embarrassing to tell people you're homeless. >> yeah, it can be, yeah. >> reporter: after serving in the army lopez worked in a tire store but lost his job when it closed. >> i was one paycheck away and that's what happened.

i lost my apartment. soon after that i lost my car, and then from there i didn't have any other place to really go. >> reporter: soon he was scrounging for food. >> you'd be surprised how much food people throw away, you know. >> and you would eat that? >> oh, yeah. yeah. if it was in the dumpster and it wasn't molded or anything like that it was good enough for me. >> reporter: lopez was still serving in the army national guard. that paid him $150 a move which he spent $50 keeping his cell phone going so he could look for work. >> i always thought like i'm going to make it out of this and when i get out of it i'm going to be able to say that i learned something from it rather than just you know, rolled over and took it and waited for someone to save me. >> reporter: the california highway patrol decided his experience on the streets could be an asset for an officer. now officer edwin lopez has a uniform, a fiance, and a home, and he's thankful for all of it. >> this is my baby. >> reporter: john blackstone, cbs news, sacramento. that's the overnight news for this friday. for some of you the news continues. for others check back with us a

and of course "cbs this morning." from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm reena ninan. >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." welcome to the "overnight news." i'm jericka duncan. for millions of americans the thanksgiving feast is all cleaned up. the leftovers are tucked away in the fridge. and that means it's time to go shopping. today is black friday. traditionally, that meant the day retailers went from being in the red for the year to finally making a profit. but these days it means gridlock at the mall. michelle miller now on the holiday shopping race. >> reporter: shoppers across america lined up even before the turkey was on the table and rolled into stores -- >> anybody who wants tvs, you're going to go this way. >> reporter: -- the night before black friday.

charrise jones is a "usa today" business reporter. >> is consumer confidence just gangbusters? what are we expecting? >> unemployment has dropped, and so people are really thinking that folks are going to head to the stores and head online this season. they're thinking sales will be up about 6% and about $1.4 trillion is going to be spent by consumers. >> reporter: online juggernaut amazon is expected to take half of the holiday season's sales growth. >> when we go online and we're dealing with a retailer there, i mean, they know every detail about our past order history. they know the things that we like. they know the things we don't like. >> reporter: lee holman is the lead retail analyst with ihl group. >> the reality is that bricks and mortar retail is still the dominant part of retail. >> reporter: but retailers are feeling the e-pressure. holman says some big box stores are changing their approach, opening smaller venues and catering to shoppers in urban

planning smaller stores that are maybe a little bit more intimate. so that the communication between the store associate and the customer can be enhanced. >> reporter: target is planning to open 130 smaller format stores by the end of 2019 like this one in the heart of manhattan's shopping district. the vast majority of shoppers may miss out on those doorbuster deals, but retailers know that consumers won't leave empty-handed. nearly 50 million americans will be on the roads this holiday weekend. that includes hundreds of thousands of police officers, and they're not only looking for drunk drivers anymore. kris van cleave has the story from washington state. >> you had your phone out. >> reporter: near seattle, washington state trooper rick johnson is watching for drivers using or even just holding their phones. [ siren ] this driver was on hers while exiting the freeway. >> now, obviously her attention was not on the two police cars. kn

we're police cars. >> reporter: washington is one of 15 states in d.c. where drivers ca p >> literally just broke up with my girlfriend. >> reporter: but washington went further, increasing fines and becoming the first state to call the behavior what safety advocates argue it truly is, driving under the influence of electronics, or duie. >> we reduced drunk driving. we're going to reduce drunk electronic driving. that's what it is. >> reporter: governor jay inslee. is part of that then trying to create a stigma with texting and driving, with being on your cell phone? >> one of the successful things why we've reduced drunk driving, it has become a great stigma. so we sneneed to create that sa social expectation. >> reporter: what do you miss most? >> the kisses. cody always kissed. >> reporter: tina meyers an advocate of the duie law. her son cody was working on a road construction crew outside seattle. the driver of this jeep told police he was looking at his phone and slammed into the 23-year-old. cody spent months in the hospital, then had a massive heart attack. >> so we had to make that

off and end our son's life. and all because somebody had to pick up a cell phone and look at it because it made a noise. >> reporter: the bill was not without controversy. critics complained that being able to pull someone over simply for holding their cell phone was a ittle too aggressive. the warning period ends in january, and then those increased fines become a reality for drivers. kris van cleave, cbs news, seattle. president trump is spending the holiday weekend at his mar-a-lago resort in florida but he's finding the time to tweet up a storm. errol barnett reports. >> thank you. >> reporter: president trump spent part of his thanksgiving at a coast guard station near his south florida resort, handing out turkey sandwiches with first lady melania trump. but mr. trump wasted no time using the holiday to brag about his administration's accomplishments. >> and the stock market on friday hit the all-time high. the highest it's ever been. ever.

day of his vacation mr. trump resorted to twitter to resume his fight with lavar ball. the father of a ucla athlete who quesioned how much the president had to do with the release of his son on suspicion of shoplifting in china. that caught the ear of "washington post" columnist greg sargent, who noted that the president "regularly attacks high-profile african-americans to feed supporters' belief that the system is rigged for minorities." the president's only response -- "make america great again." the white house did not respond to a cbs news request for clarification. now, following his morning thanksgiving messages president trump made a second visit in as many days to his local golf club here, spending about hour hours there. tonight the first family will share a thanksgiving meal together at mar-a-lago. the sexual abuse allegations rocking industry, entertainment, and the media are also sending shock waves across washington. nancy cordes has the story from capitol hill. >> reporter: republican joe

barton says a nude selfie of him and explicitex are evidence of a potential crime against him. barton says a woman he dated admitted "we had a consensual relationship. when i ended that relationship she threatened to publicly share my private photographs in retaliation." >> let's do business in the house. >> reporter: barton is 68, a 17-term congressman and twice divorced. in a secretly recorded 2015 phone call barton confronted the woman after she shared the sensitive material with other women he had dat. she recently played that recording for the "washington post." "i want your word that this ends," barton reportedly said, warning "i should take all this crap to the capitol hill police and have them launch an investigation." barton has not been accused of any wrongdoing. the same cannot be said of michigan's john conyers, the

>> reporter: melanie sloan, a prominent d.c. attorney who worked for conyers in the '90s, says he was verbally abusive about everything from her work to her clothes. >> he also once had me come up to his office when he was walking around in his underwear. >> reporter: conyers is already facing an ethics investigation for allegedly making repeated sexual advances on two staffers. one says she was fired when she rejected him. his office settled with her for $27,000. conyers has denied the allegations. and the number of accusers against minnesota senator al franken has grown to four after two women told the huffington post that he groped their buttocks at minnesota campaign events in 2007 and 2008. franken told the huffington post, "it's difficult to respond to anonymous accusers, and i don't remember those campaign events." both franken and conyers say they have no intention of stepping down but several democrats are urgion

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>> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." if you're one of the millions of americans who like to spend black friday in the malls, you better enjoy it while you can. internet shopping is turning a lot of our nation's shopping centers into dinosaurs as in on the brink of extinction. alex wagner reports on the efforts of retailers to bring the shoppers back. >> reporter: at the eddie bauer store in columbus, ohio the retail environment is decidedly chilly. freezing, in fact. >> this is an actual block of ice. >> it is.

>> give it a shot. >> reporter: they created an icebox. chilled to 16 degrees. so customers can try out their cold weather gear. it's something that can't be done online. >> people come here on repeat visits? >> absolutely. >> for the novelty to test out the clothes? >> well, yes. to test the outerwear for sure that's what it's intended for. it's just a great experience. >> a great way to punish children? >> punish children. >> reporter: like eddie bauer, retailers across the country are looking for ways to lure customers offline -- >> we have some cookies. >> reporter: -- and into their stores. >> so the brands that are winning have figured that out and are creating unique experiences for the consumer in the store. >> reporter: melissa miller is with alliance data, which helps businesses market to customers and try to retain them. >> it could be a makeover. it could be meet the chef. it could be decorating services. >> reporter: it's why saks had its wellery pop-up, part fitness center, part shopping experience. and macy's is partnering with samsung and its flagship store in new york.

too?s into actual sales. >> reporter: american brick and mortar retail is undergoing seismic change. and the numbers tell the tale of woe. in 2017 alone retail mainstays like sears and kmart have closed more than 350 stores. the gap has closed about 200. and jcpenney has shuttered nearly 140. >> well, this is the current retail apocalypse. >> reporter: mark cohen is a professor at columbia business school. he says it's not just the amazons of the world that are hurting traditional stores. what about brick and mortar retailers who are now trying to get into the e-commerce game? >> many of the legacy retailers, the department stores, for example, who've created their own websites, are now finding their core customer migrating over to the website. >> reporter: empty stores aren't sustainable but novel efforts to coax customers through the doors come witri

gimmick, today's customer sees right through it. they might check it out once, but they're not going to be responsive to it. and more so than ever before they have choices. increasingly, they can transact anywhere in the world. just with the stroke of a key. >> reporter: for some stores it's already too late. photographer seth lawless documents the collapse of the american mall. >> it's always very eerie and creepy walking into any abandoned structure, especially an abandoned mall. >> reporter: the decline in traditional retail is certainly reshaping american commerce. but it may also end up reshaping american life. >> these places weren't just a place to shop, right? it was a communal space. we went here, we met friends. this was a way we communicated with each other. this was a chat room before there was a chat room. a lot of amateur chefs are pretty proud of the spread they put out for thanksgiving.

but whatea iyoat the finest res the world? mark phillips did. >> reporter: to beat a path to the door of the best restaurant in the world you first have to find the door. somewhere down the winding country lanes of the english county of north yorkshire is a place even the gps can't find. and the owners of the black swan like it that way. >> i love where i'm from. i love the fact that people have to travel to the village that i grew up in to eat my food. >> reporter: and boy, have they been traveling lately. >> table 3. >> reporter: ever since tommy banks' little family-run country pub was surprisingly named, yes, the best restaurant in the world by trip advisor, an award not based on food critic reviews but on a secret algorithm of internet posts by normal customers. just ask bethany.

>> it's great to be able for the past few weeks or so to say to friends actually, when we said what are you doing over the holidays, we said we're going to the best restaurant in the world. >> reporter: great for a little place that used to have trouble filling its tables. not anymore. >> in terms of business, just a game changer. we're fully booked. we release bookings three months in advance, and people sit online at midnight and snap the bookings out. so it's amazing. you don't even have to answer the phone because by the time you wake up in the morning all the bookings have gone. >> reporter: what's the attraction? innovative cooking using local products. really innovative. >> what are you going to show me? >> so first up, i've got some beef. >> reporter: not just beef. but beer-fed beef from just down the road. covered in a homegrown peppery sauce. topped with a little grated sweet chestnut and frozen smoked bone marrow. >> and you eat it --

i don't think it's as challenging as it sounds. next. >> reporter: next is the black swan's signature dish. >> that's been cooking for about four hours now, and then we spoke it. >> reporter: based on the previously humble beet root. treated more like a steak with exotic toppings. >> kind of a braised meat. and then on top of it you've got horseradish. beef and horseradish is the most classic english -- >> so where did the idea come from? how did you decide beet root -- >> when you have about 10,000 beetroot in the field you have to come up with a pretty original idea what to do with it. >> it's what's in the pantry. >> let's dig up this one. >> reporter: the pantry is the family farm right next door. where the beets are grown. and where tom sr. digs them up. >> we call it beet root but we call it meat root because it looks like meat. >> reporter: it turns out yorkshire provides a bounty of exotic ingredients, if you're prepared to take the risk to

>> it is a bit slippery. >> so it is. >> reporter: really slippery. >> oh, dear. >> i hope you were rolling. >> reporter: the sloe berries used in jams and sloe gin are worth the embarrassment. >> mm. >> that's delicious. >> you can't speak but it's delicious. >> reporter: the best restaurant award has done more for business than the michelin star earned years ago. the secret is to stay local. >> you got sauce, benji? >> reporter: in how you cook and apparently how you behave. >> the other thing about yorkshire is everyone's very understated. so you never, ever are going to find anybody that blows their own trumpet. that's what people say to me, how do you stay down to earth? i'm like it's quite easy. trying to get praise out of my mum and dad is absolutely impossible. in yorkshire if someone goes yeah, it's all right, it's pretty damn good. >> the recommendation to say the black swan in olstead, it's all right. >> yeah.

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parachute to see what they're all about. >> a few years ago the denver broncos decided they wanted to they wanted something high energy, high speed, and high drama. now minutes before kickoff from a plane circling overhead the four members of denver's very own parachute team take flight. >> ready, set, go! ♪ feel the thunder ♪ feel the thunder >> reporter: from a sea of darkness. 5,000 feet over downtown denver. streaking across the night sky. [ cheers and applause ] before igniting the 70,000 fans packed into sports authority field at mile-high. they are the thunderstorm, swooping into the stadium through a maze of criss-crossing wires at 60 miles per hour to kick off denver broncos home games. >> this is everything for us. >> yeah. it's all about the fans. and when they're cheering, we're fired up. >> reporter: the team trains an hour north at mile-high skydiving, where the average skydiver descends with a parachute twice as big and lands at a speed three times slower than the thunderstorm.

>>t ing? >> it's total freedom. you don't worry about if you've got bills to pay. it's like 60 seconds to do your job and then back to reality. >> reporter: co-founder jimmy tranter never considered doing anything else, even after losing his mother in a skydiving accident as a kid. >> even in the darkest moments it was never a question to me. i just -- it was a matter of how old i had to be before i could jump. >> just something you loved. >> i couldn't imagine not doing it. >> i love swooping parachutes. i love flying parachutes. and so this demo is like the king of all demos. >> reporter: allison ray discovered her passion for flying through the air and found a mentor in jimmy tranter. >> he's really kind of a legend in the sport. he's been around forever. 25-plus thousand jumps. >> you're the only woman that's part of this team. >> yes. the only woman to jump into the stadium at all, which is a

>> yes. it feels like it. i hope so. >> reporter: between the four skydivers they have nearly 50,000 jumps. a requirement to becoming a member of this elite group. usually. >> here's what we're going to do. ♪ >> reporter: when it comes to jumping out of a plane, it's one thing to hear about it. >> have a good one, fellas. >> reporter: but another to experience it. ♪ fly ♪ fly >> way to go. >> now, how much faster is it when you guys are going into the stadium? >> twice as fast, easy. or three times. >> degree of difficulty with this jump, where is it in terms of the world of skydiving? >> i think it's one of the top one or two for sure. this is as technical and as difficult as it gets. >> reporter: this jump is complex.

>> because this is where we have to turn in order to get it steep and dive it down by the stands. >> reporter: but one little detail makes it perhaps the most difficult and most unique in the world. ♪ tightrope >> a lot of people will look at the stadium and say it's a big wide open field. but immediately as soon as we add the field goal cables, coming from all four corners and a 50 yard line cable, you actually have to dive small parachutes through this hole here. it's kind of like "mission: impossible" style. >> it's a dance. four people working together, communicating without speaking. >> as far as risk, how important is it to have teamwork? >> it's everything. you've got to be able to trust the people you're flying with. it is potentially extremely dangerous. >> it's really like parallel parking a ferrari at about 60 miles an hou

time. >> but i don't think you can actually do that, can you? >> most people can't.

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